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  COMMONWEAL APRIL 2020 FROM THE EDITORS Going big COMMENT Biden & the border   (Griffin Oleynick) Myanmar’s coup (Isabella Simon) Stopping the vote (Matthew Sitman) SHORT TAKES Against lying (Rita Ferrone) Experiments in self-reliance (Jonathan Malesic) Letter from India (Jo McGowan ) The end of the Alien Tort Statute? (Fernando C. Saldivar, SJ) ARTICLES Last men and women (George Scialabba) The promise and peril of artificial intelligence (John W. Farrell) The case against meritocracy (Eugene McCarraher) INTERVIEW Maria Hinojosa with Regina Munch ARTS ‘Goya’s Graphic Imagination’ (Alejandro Anreus) BOOKS Church, Interrupted by John Cornwell (Reviewed by Austen Ivereigh) No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood (Reviewed by Katie Daniels) Chicago Católico by Deborah E. Kanter (Reviewed by Milton Javier Bravo) The career of Mary-Kay Wilmers (Anthony Domestico) SPORTS Remembering Maradona (Santiago Ramos) POETRY ...

  MARCH 2021 COMMONWEAL FROM THE EDITORS Shameful COMMENT Hope for Yemen (Regina Munch) Rallying around Navalny (Isabella Simon) Getting back to school (Dominic Preziosi) COLUMN Restoring federal labor law (Matt Mazewski) SHORT TAKES The mourning after (Rand Richards Cooper) Women in liturgy (Mollie Wilson O’Reilly) Letter from Cholula, Mexico (Joseph Sorrentino) The paradoxes of deterrence (Bernard G. Prusak) ARTICLES Catholicism and gender (Daniel Walden) Textual idolatry (Sarah Ruden) Bolivia after Evo (Santiago Ramos) ARTS ‘Marking Time’ (Griffin Oleynick) SCREEN ‘The White Tiger’ (Nicole-Ann Lobo) ‘Mank’ (Paul Baumann) BOOKS Set the Night on Fire by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener The Monster Enters by Mike Davis (Reviewed by John Thomason ) Conversations with René Girard edited by Cynthia L. Haven Evolution of Desire by Cynthia L. Haven (Reviewed by Costica Bradatan ) Books in Brief POETRY “Leaving Boston” and “All Day We Dr...

  FEBRUARY 2021 COMMONWEAL FROM THE EDITORS Convict him COMMENT Warnock’s way (John Gehring) A failed auction (Isabella Simon) Vaccine delays (Katie Daniels) COLUMN Thinking Latinly (Cathleen Kaveny ) A people, not an army  (Susan Bigelow Reynolds  ) SHORT TAKES COVID fatigue (Ebtesam Attaya Islam ) The internet and national security (Andrew Bacevich) Papal populism (Austen Ivereigh) ARTICLES A dangerous confusion (David Cloutier ) The problem of evil (Denys Turner) Acting and empathy (John Paul Rollert) INTERVIEW Barry Lopez with Griffin Oleynick BOOKS A Promised Land by Barack Obama (Reviewed by Paul Baumann) Red Pill by Hari Kunzru (Reviewed by Adam Fleming Petty) The Open Heart Club by Gabriel Brownstein (Reviewed by Rand Richards Cooper) Regret by Paul J. Griffiths (Reviewed by Jonathan Malesic) Philosopher of the Heart by Clare Carlisle (Reviewed by Gordon Marino) Books in Brief SPORTS Béisbol and the border (Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández) POETRY “Rood Riddle” (Pete Gre...

  DECEMBER 2020 COMMONWEAL FROM THE EDITORS Biden’s first challenge COMMENT Georgia’s runoff elections (Isabella Simon) A new foreign policy (Griffin Oleynick) A climate president? (Dominic Preziosi) COLUMN Trump can run again (Matt Mazewski) SHORT TAKES The unjustifiable bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki   (John Schwenkler and Mark Souva) New life for cystic fibrosis patients (Roberto J. De La Noval ) How McCarrick got away with it for so long (David Gibson) ARTICLES A symposium on Fratelli tutti (Charles Taylor, William T. Cavanaugh, Vinson Cunningham, Neomi De Anda ) Bishop John England’s complicated legacy (Paul Lakeland) W. H. Auden and the postChristmas blues (Jeff Reimer) INTERVIEW Frank Pasquale(with Lawrence Joseph) ARTS Vida Americana (Griffin Oleynick) CHRISTMAS CRITICS (Kirstin Valdez Quade, Burke Nixon , Katie Daniels, Dominic Preziosi) BOOKS Hotly in Pursuit of the Real by Ron Hansen (Reviewed by Gerald J. Russello) ...

NOVEMBER 2020 COMMONWEAL   FROM THE EDITORS Democracy in America? COMMENT Nagorno-Karabakh  ( Griffin Oleynick) Saving New START  (Regina Munch) Mass in the orange zone (Paul Moses) COLUMN The soundtrack of ‘Fratelli tutti’  (Susan Bigelow Reynolds) SHORT TAKES The moral meaning of a vote for Donald Trump (Timothy Snyder) Sr. Thea Bowman’s challenge to the Catholic Church (Tia Noelle Pratt) Convicting Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano (Martha Doggett ) ARTICLES The controversy over Pius XII (Kevin Madigan) Riding with the hourlies (Jay Neugeboren) The new integralism (Timothy Troutner) BOOKS One Billion Americans by Matthew Yglesias (Reviewed by Matt Mazewski) Jack by Marilynne Robinson (Reviewed by Valerie Sayers) The Math Campers by Dan Chiasson (Reviewed by Anthony Domestico) In Search of the Soul by John Cottingham (Reviewed by Bernard G. Prusak) Charter School City by Douglas N. Harris (Reviewed by Mercedes K. Schneider) ...

 Reimagining U.S. Catholicism Today. On Mondays during October, Commonweal had a series called that were available live through Zoom, . Each topic had a panel of four people and a moderator for a discussion that lasted about an hour long. They are all available now on the  Commonweal YouTube Site The following, the final and best one, was on the pandemic, community, and parish life.  Below I give an outline of the conversation with brief phrases that may help you through the hour, and also help you to comment on the discussion.  The Future of Community & Sacramental Life |  Claudia Avila Cosnahan (moderator):  Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles  Question: what  has the pandemic revealed  about  the role of the parish in the mission of the church? Darius Villatobos  National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry 1. how fragile parish life is (gave example of deacon who had to take over responsibility when prie...